Wheelbarrow



(No Model.)

A. TAIGHER.

WHEBLBARROW.

No. 887,827. Y Patented Aug. '7, 1888.

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ilNiTn STATES PATENT Giunchi.

ADOLPH 'IAICHER, OF GREENSTREET, WISCONSIN.

WH EELBARROW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 387,327, dated August 7, 1888.

Serial No. 268,515. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH TAICHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greenstreet, in the county of Manitowoc and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vheelbarrows; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, suc-h as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to wheelbarrows; and it consists in the novel construction and conibination of the parts, as hereinafter fully described and claimed, whereby the barrow may be used in wintertiine, when the ground is covered with snow, with as much facility as upon ordinary occasions.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of the barrow for use upon snowcovered ground. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same from below. Fig. 3 is a side View ofthe wheel attachment.

A are the two side bars of the barrow, provided with the cross piece B and legs C.

D are the handles. E is the pau or box for the load, and F are crossbraces which unite the cross-piece with the side bars.

G is the wheel, provided with pivots g, projecting from its hub, and ct are journals in the ends of the side bars for the pivots to run in. The journals a are downwardly-opening slots, and H are plates pivotally connected to the side bars by the screws h, for covering the open ends of the slots and keeping the wheellpivots The wheel can be removed. as often as desired by slackening the screws and turning the plates, so as to allow the pivots to be removed from the journals.

I is the runner, for use when the ground is covered with snow. This runner is shod with steel at the bottom, and is curved upwardly at each end t', so that the barrow may be moved backward and forward.

J are pivots centrally secured to the upper part of the runner, and j are brackets secured to the cross-piece B for carrying the said pivots. The runner-pivots are substantially under the center of gravity of the barrow when loaded and being pushed along, and Very little weight connes upon the arms of the operator, who is` therefore able to walk carefully and is not liable to slip up and fall.

rIhe runner can easily be removed and the wheel attached as often as may be desirable.

l. In a barrow, the combinationnwith the side bars provided with Wheelpivotjournals at their ends and pivoted plates for retaining the pivots in thejournals, of the single runner curved upwardly at each end and provided with central pivots projecting laterally from its upper edge, brackets for carrying the runner-pivots, and a crosspiece substantially un der the center of gravity of the load for the attachment of the said brackets.

2. In a barrow, the combination, with the side bars and the cross-piece secured to the side bars substantially under the center of gravity of the load, of the single runner curved upwardly at each end and provided with central pivots projecting laterally from its upper edge, and the brackets secured to the said crosspiece for carrying the runner-pivots.

3. The combination,with the framework of the barrow,ofa single runner curved upwardly at each end and provided with laterally-pro jecting central pivots supported in the said frame-work substantially under the center of gravity of the load.

In testimonywhereof I affix niy signature in presence of two witnesses.

ADOLPH TAICHER.

Witnesses:

THoMAs TURANEK, JOSEPH KORINEK. 

